Music in Brazil

This is the companion site for my book, Music in Brazil: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, in the Oxford University Press Global Music series. It's intended for students and teachers who are using the book as well as general readers and Brazilian music fans. That's me in the photo, at left, sitting in with Arlindo dos Oito Baixos (him: cool and relaxed; me: concentrating like crazy in order to avoid pushing when I should pull and vice versa), my teacher of accordion during 2000-2001.

Arlindo died on Oct. 23, 2013, after a long struggle with diabetes. Here are two videos I made that document an evening at the forró club he ran on Sundays at his house. Your browser may tell you that the video file won't play because it's corrupt. If you download the file, it plays with no problem. This was tested most recently on 2015-02-20.